Megamouth Shark #32

May 05, 2005

Release from: John Y. Wang and Shih-Chu Yang


Megamouth #32 has been captured and landed in the waters off Hualien Taiwan. This specimen was a female that weighed 807 kilograms which was even heavier than the previous female and may be more likely to be pregnant. She was sold directly to Kwung-Tsao Shao at the Academia Sinica and was shipped directly to the Taipei Zoo for dissection. This was the fourth megamouth to be caught in these waters within about a two week period.